Problem: Address Book Permissions are corrupted. All you get is error message: You don't have read or write permissions on the Address Book database file
CategoryMacOsx CategoryApplications CategoryShell
"Repairing Permissions" from the Disk Utility doesn't do a thing to the user files.
Solution: Quit Address Book, open Terminal in the Utilities folder and paste all these commands in the Terminal window:
chown $USER:admin ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook chmod 744 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook chown $USER:admin ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/* chmod 600 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/* chmod 644 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/ABPerson.skIndex chmod 644 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data.beforesave chmod 644 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data.zip chmod 755 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/ABPerson.index chmod 755 ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/Images
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